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A Carefully Cultivated Personality

Christine Verity VACLAV HAVEL: A POLITICAL TRAGEDY IN SIX ACTS by John Keane Bloomsbury, £25, pp. 532 T here are few saints in politics and with the recent retirement of Nelson......

A Classic Sporting Hotel

Tom Yandle A LAZY CONTENTMENT: THE HISTORY OF THE CARNARVON ARMS HOTEL by Sophia and Julian Watson Lonsdale Press, £20, pp. 82 M y family have lived and farmed near Dulverton......